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San Pedro’s Elito Arceo Honored as an Ocean Hero 2025

Jose “Elito” Arceo and Dennis Garbutt celebrated for advocacy and action. On December 4th, 2025, Oceana formally recognized two more Belizeans as Ocean Heroes. They are Jose “Elito” Arceo of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, and Dennis Garbutt from Punta Gorda Town. The awardees were honored during the 15th Ocean Hero

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Belize at 36 Days with Zero COVID-19 Cases


As of  yesterday, Tuesday, May 20, 2020,Belize is only country in mainland America with zero COVID-19 cases after Suriname reported a new case. Belize’s Ministry of Health reported last night that a further 33

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Belize is Back to Zero Active COVID-19 Cases

This afternoon, Belize’s Ministry of Health has made the announcement that the country is once again back to zero active COVID-19 cases with the last two active cases having recovered after testing negative on

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Belize Rolls Out More Unemployment Relief

As of noon today, April 20, 2020, a total of 72,213 applications have been submitted since the Unemployment Relief Program was opened to accept applications on April 3, 2020. This includes some of the

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